[ILUG] Linux not good enough......

[Martin List-Petersen]

Citat Dave O Connor <doc+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie>:

> Conor Wynne said on Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:58:17PM +0100:
> > You will have to expand on that one. :--0
> > I work in support, so I see most of the problems with various kernels/OS
> > (mainly linux & some windows)
> 
> I should mention that non-directly-hardware related lockups are extremely
> rare, at least in my experience. My linux machines run an application
> server, my windows machines something similar. I've had windows machines (I 
> manage about 30 of them) randomly bluescreen maybe twice.

That is unfortunatly the usual.

> Ditto for linux machines (i.e. IBM machines panicking due to a dodgy ips
> module). 

Ok. How fast was that fixed, when first got adressed ?

> It's all really dependant on what you're doing (for example, I've had a
> Poweredge 1650 lock up, then refuse to boot when fiddling with lm_sensors in
> the test lab (Obligatory poke at how pants OMSA is).

LM sensors as part of the mainstream kernel or lmsensors in as you patched it in
yourself ?

LM sensors tend to be borked quite often, so i would not take that want as a
measurement. 

And the poking around in OMSA i would say is a testing environment, not
production. Try poking around in Windows ... Uhh Ohh .. :o) 
If you are testing machines to their limits they are meant to fail at some
point.

/Martin